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Lee Tilton’s SCCA Worker Experience Opened the Door to FIA Events. Here Are His Top Tips for Working Pro Races
If you visited the Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA® Super Tour at NOLA Motorsports Park earlier this season – or really any event at the Big Easy track – you’re familiar with Lee Tilton, even if you don’t know it. Tilton is the...Read more -
Giving Back has Led Joseph Menowsky III from the Driver’s Seat to Scrutineering, and becoming an SCCA Worker of the Year
If you were to pick a scrutineer for your tech shed, wouldn’t you want someone who has built race cars and has read the GCR cover to cover? If so, you’d probably pick Washington DC Region’s Joseph Menowsky III. He has built...Read more -
SCCA Data Tech Interns Get Insider View of Motorsports
Data plays a huge role in modern society, and that certainly includes motorsports. Some forward-thinking students are planning for their future while learning about data collection and auto racing in general by volunteering...Read more -
Details are Key for DC Region’s Betty Harrison, Recipient of SCCA’s Registration Worker of the Year Award
Betty Harrison’s introduction to SCCA® came in a roundabout way that is both unique and familiar. She had a horse, and a friend of hers who also had a horse was married to an SCCA racer. Her friends and another racing couple...Read more -
From Working Pro Events to Helping Relaunch her Region’s Road Racing Program, 2023 Race Admin Worker of the Year Julie Hammons Has Quite the Resume
Julie Hammons started volunteering with the Sports Car Club of America® at a Memorial Day event in 1981. “In those days, you worked on a logbook before you were approved,” she explains. “I didn’t become a member until 1986.”...Read more -
Bill Skibbe Won the 2023 John McGill Award, and He Has a 1962 Mini Station Wagon to Thank for It
The late John McGill, self-titled "General Overall Director" (GOD) at the Nelson Ledges Road Course for nearly 30 years, was a tireless worker and relentless encourager whose focus helped make a primitive and out-of-the way...Read more -
Important F&C Certification Changes Ahead for License Renewals
Beginning Dec. 1, 2024, requirements will change for SCCA® Flagging & Communications (F&C) license renewals, phasing in the requirement to complete F&C certification training. The required certification coursework...Read more -
2023 Starter Workers of the Year: John and Beth Burkhard
It all began in the 1960s when Beth Burkhard’s parents, Sheila and Josh Cockey, were invited to a race at Marlboro Speedway by a cousin who was a Formula Vee® racer. They were hooked and started working Flagging &...Read more -
Kim Kuzma McFarland Started Small, and Now Works World Championship Events
It’s the goal of numerous SCCA® members to start locally and build their skillset enough to participate in FIA World Championship events. Several have done it – and we’re not even counting drivers. Kim Kuzma McFarland is a...Read more -
A Trip to the Track Has Turned into a Lifelong Adventure for Kathy McLeod, SCCA’s 2023 Steward Worker of the Year
Kathy McLeod’s first experience with sports car racing came as a spectator at the Chicago Region June Sprints at Road America in 1966. Three years later, she was dating a gentleman who was going to Road America to race, so...Read more
